Method for providing track position and identification information for data storage devices
    3.
    发明授权
    Method for providing track position and identification information for data storage devices 失效
    提供数据存储设备的轨道位置和识别信息的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06788641B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-09-07

    申请号:US09911552

    申请日:2001-07-23

    IPC分类号: G11B724

    摘要: Fabrication of an MO disc, the formation of a master pattern of servo and track information, and the subsequent transfer of that pattern to a series of pits and grooves on a substrate. On top of that substrate, at least one sacrificial layer is provided atop a relatively hard layer. The recording stack may be provided with both silicon nitride and silicon dioxide top layers, with the silicon dioxide layer acting as a sacrificial layer to ensure that the hard layer, of silicon nitride, remains at the end of the process. A layer of aluminum or aluminum alloy may be deposited, with the aluminum plugs filling the grooves and pits (created by the embossed servo information) to a level higher than any of the adjacent layers of silicon dioxide, silicon nitride, or similar dielectric layer. Since the polishing rate of aluminum can be far faster than that of the silicon dioxide, then the aluminum can be etched or otherwise removed down to a level equal to or slightly below a planar surface with the silicon dioxide, with the silicon dioxide layer allowing for some small level of over polishing. The silicon nitride layer is protected completely; the silicon dioxide layer partially remains and is partially removed; and the aluminum metal which fills the grooves and pits would rise only to a level substantially equal the very flat top surface of the silicon dioxide.

    摘要翻译: 制造MO盘,形成伺服和跟踪信息的主模式,以及随后将该图案转移到衬底上的一系列凹坑和凹槽。 在该基板的顶部,在相对硬的层之上提供至少一个牺牲层。 记录堆叠可以设置有氮化硅和二氧化硅顶层,其中二氧化硅层用作牺牲层,以确保氮化硅的硬层保持在工艺结束。 可以沉积一层铝或铝合金,其中铝塞将填充凹槽和凹坑(由压花伺服信息产生)提升到高于任何相邻二氧化硅,氮化硅或类似介电层的层。 由于铝的抛光速度可以比二氧化硅的抛光速度快得多,所以可以利用二氧化硅蚀刻或以其它方式将铝去除到等于或略低于平面的水平,其中二氧化硅层允许 一些小水平的抛光。 氮化硅层被完全保护; 二氧化硅层部分残留并被部分去除; 并且填充凹槽和凹坑的铝金属将仅升高到基本上等于二氧化硅的非常平坦的顶表面的水平。

    Method and system for utilizing circular marks in position error signal patterns
    4.
    发明授权
    Method and system for utilizing circular marks in position error signal patterns 有权
    在位置误差信号模式中利用圆形痕迹的方法和系统

    公开(公告)号:US06781785B2

    公开(公告)日:2004-08-24

    申请号:US09726965

    申请日:2000-11-29

    IPC分类号: G11B5596

    摘要: Marks with curved edges are used in data patterns and sensed with proximity recording. Circular, elliptical, and oval marks are examples of marks with curved edges that can be used in the present invention. The marks with curved edges are used to define data patterns (e.g. position error signal patterns) as a function of radius. If the marks with curved edges have been recorded longitudinally, an amplitude of a read back signal, such as a peak amplitude, is determined in order to generate a position error signal. If the marks with curved edges have been recorded vertically, an area under the curve of the read back signal is determined in order to generate a position error signal.

    摘要翻译: 具有弯曲边缘的标记用于数据模式并用近距离记录感测。 圆形,椭圆形和椭圆形标记是可用于本发明的具有弯曲边缘的标记的示例。 具有弯曲边缘的标记用于定义作为半径的函数的数据模式(例如位置误差信号模式)。 如果已经纵向记录具有弯曲边缘的标记,则确定诸如峰值振幅的回读信号的幅度,以便产生位置误差信号。 如果已经垂直记录了具有弯曲边缘的标记,则确定回读信号的曲线下方的区域以产生位置误差信号。

    Writing servo data patterns on a data storage disk to account for repeatable and non-repeatable disturbances and thereby provide concentric data tracks
    5.
    发明授权
    Writing servo data patterns on a data storage disk to account for repeatable and non-repeatable disturbances and thereby provide concentric data tracks 失效
    在数据存储盘上写入伺服数据模式以解决可重复和不可重复的干扰,从而提供同心的数据轨道

    公开(公告)号:US06751046B1

    公开(公告)日:2004-06-15

    申请号:US09695185

    申请日:2000-10-23

    IPC分类号: G11B5596

    摘要: A method for self-servo writing begins by calibrating at least one ruler formed on at least one storage disk. A ruler is a position-sensing pattern that defines the radial position of a recording head. The calibration process determines at least one correction factor for the at least one ruler on the disk. A servo system is then activated and the correction factors are used when writing the final servo pattern. During the process of writing the final servo patterns, the correction factors are modified to account for variations in any repeatable disturbances and for errors caused by any non-repeatable disturbances.

    摘要翻译: 自动伺服写入的方法通过校准形成在至少一个存储盘上的至少一个标尺开始。 标尺是定义记录头的径向位置的位置感测图案。 校准过程确定盘上的至少一个标尺的至少一个校正因子。 然后激活伺服系统,并且在写入最终伺服模式时使用校正因子。 在写入最终伺服模式的过程中,校正因子被修改以考虑任何可重复干扰的变化以及由任何不可重复的扰动引起的误差。

    System and method for encoding read-only information on storage media
    6.
    发明授权
    System and method for encoding read-only information on storage media 失效
    用于对存储介质上的只读信息进行编码的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US06421313B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-07-16

    申请号:US09190649

    申请日:1998-11-12

    申请人: Karl A. Belser

    发明人: Karl A. Belser

    IPC分类号: G11B700

    摘要: A system and method for encoding read-only information comprises a storage medium, a plurality of position marks disposed on the storage medium, and a light beam directed towards the position marks to produce a reflection of the light beam from the position marks. The position marks are configured such that the reflection of the light beam is not responsive to a plane of polarization of the light beam. In one embodiment, the position marks comprise rows of substantially circular pits. The dimensions of the substantially circular pits depend on a wavelength of the light beam and a numerical aperture of a lens that directs the light beam towards the position marks.

    摘要翻译: 用于编码只读信息的系统和方法包括存储介质,设置在存储介质上的多个位置标记以及指向位置标记的光束,以产生来自位置标记的光束的反射。 位置标记被配置为使得光束的反射不响应于光束的偏振平面。 在一个实施例中,位置标记包括大致圆形凹坑的行。 基本圆形凹坑的尺寸取决于光束的波长和将光束引向位置标记的透镜的数值孔径。

    Optical disk with sector servo patterns compensating for variations in
pattern size and/or radial velocity
    7.
    发明授权
    Optical disk with sector servo patterns compensating for variations in pattern size and/or radial velocity 失效
    具有补偿图案尺寸和/或径向速度变化的扇区伺服图案的光盘

    公开(公告)号:US5327408A

    公开(公告)日:1994-07-05

    申请号:US579434

    申请日:1990-09-07

    申请人: Karl A. Belser

    发明人: Karl A. Belser

    摘要: An optical disk has groups of features (such as depressed areas) arranged in a preselected position sensing servo pattern, and a flat, non-grooved surface between a plurality of circumferentially spaced sectors. A single photodetector senses the change in amplitude of reflected light as a spot from a laser passes over one of the features and generates position sensing signals corresponding to the pattern. At least three phases of the position sensing signal are generated for each sector. Each phase is determined by edges on the disk offset circumferentially with respect to each other and separated radially from each other by a preselected critical distance that is independent of the pitch of the recording tracks on the disk to provide a track error signal that is substantially linear within a desired range to either side of a zero-crossing point.Each even sector includes a plurality of features formed in an arrangement which is the complement and/or reversal in order circumferentially of their arrangement in the intervening odd sectors to cancel simultaneously, by averaging the position sensing signals from adjacent sectors, errors caused by variations in pattern size and/or radial velocity of an optical head as it moves generally radially of the disk.

    摘要翻译: 光盘具有布置在感测伺服图案的预选位置的特征组(例如凹陷区域)以及在多个周向间隔开的扇区之间的平坦的非凹槽表面。 单个光电探测器感测反射光的振幅的变化,因为来自激光的点通过特征之一并且产生对应于图案的位置感测信号。 为每个扇区生成位置感测信号的至少三个相位。 每个相位由磁盘上的边缘相对于彼此周向地偏移并且彼此径向分开预定的临界距离,该距离与盘上的记录轨道的间距无关,以提供基本上线性的轨道误差信号 在过零点的任一侧的期望范围内。 每个偶数扇区包括多个特征,这些特征形成在排列中,该排列是在其间隔的奇数扇区中沿其排列的周向排列的互补和/或反转,以通过平均来自相邻扇区的位置感测信号, 当光头大致径向移动时,光学头的图案尺寸和/或径向速度。

    Reconfigurable all-optical multiplexers with simultaneous add-drop capability
    9.
    再颁专利
    Reconfigurable all-optical multiplexers with simultaneous add-drop capability 有权
    可重新配置的全光复用器具有同时的添加功能

    公开(公告)号:USRE39411E1

    公开(公告)日:2006-11-28

    申请号:US11027588

    申请日:2004-12-31

    IPC分类号: G02B6/34

    摘要: The invention provides a novel wavelength-separating-routing (WSR) apparatus that uses a diffraction grating to separate a multi-wavelength optical signal by wavelength into multiple spectral channels, which are then focused onto an array of corresponding channel micromirrors. The channel micromirrors are individually controllable and continuously pivotable to reflect the spectral channels into multiple output ports. As such, the inventive WSR apparatus is capable of routing the spectral channels on a channel-by-channel basis and coupling any spectral channel into any one of the output ports. The WSR apparatus of the present invention may be further equipped with servo-control and spectral power-management capabilities, thereby maintaining the coupling efficiencies of the spectral channels into the output ports at desired values. The WSR apparatus of the present invention can be used to construct a novel class of dynamically reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers (OADMs) for WDM optical networking applications.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种新颖的波长分离路由(WSR)装置,其使用衍射光栅将波长的多波长光信号分离成多个光谱通道,然后将其聚焦到相应通道微镜的阵列上。 通道微镜可独立控制,并可连续转动,以将光谱通道反射到多个输出端口。 因此,本发明的WSR设备能够在逐个信道的基础上路由频谱信道,并将任何频谱信道耦合到任何一个输出端口。 本发明的WSR设备可以进一步配备伺服控制和频谱功率管理功能,从而将频谱信道的耦合效率保持在输出端口的期望值。 本发明的WSR设备可用于构建用于WDM光网络应用的新型动态可重配置的光分插复用器(OADM)。

    Method for replicating magnetic patterns on hard disk media
    10.
    发明授权
    Method for replicating magnetic patterns on hard disk media 失效
    在硬盘介质上复制磁图的方法

    公开(公告)号:US06898031B1

    公开(公告)日:2005-05-24

    申请号:US09838683

    申请日:2001-04-19

    摘要: A system and method for replicating magnetic patterns on hard disk media includes a mask located over or above a magnetic recording layer. The recording layer may include a single, dual, or multi-layer recording layer. A pattern is or has been formed in the mask, where the pattern defines the recordable regions and the non-recordable regions to be created in one or more layers within the recording layer. Portions of the recording layer are then exposed. An etch may then be performed to create grooves within one or more layers in the exposed regions of the recording layer. The magnetic properties of at least one layer in the exposed portions of the recording layer are then altered in order to create recordable or non-recordable regions. The mask is then removed from the recording layer.

    摘要翻译: 用于在硬盘介质上复制磁图案的系统和方法包括位于磁记录层之上或之上的掩模。 记录层可以包括单层,双层或多层记录层。 在掩模中形成或已经形成图案,其中图案限定要在记录层内的一个或多个层中创建的可记录区域和不可记录区域。 然后暴露记录层的部分。 然后可以执行蚀刻以在记录层的暴露区域中的一个或多个层内产生凹槽。 然后改变记录层的暴露部分中的至少一层的磁性,以便产生可记录或不可记录的区域。 然后从记录层移除掩模。